The Derelict (1915)
Within earshot of her fiancé Leo Holmes and his friend Bruce Morgan Louise Wilke says she could never marry a man who was a drunkard. Morgan, secretly in love with Louise, gets Leo intoxicated and sends him to her home. Louise breaks off the engagement and Bruce pursues her. Undecided, she slips into a dream where she is mired in a life of misery with Morgan, who has become a worse drunkard than Holmes as well as selfish and brutal. In trying to defend herself from Bruce she kills him with a pair of shears. Holmes, a poor derelict, hears her scream, rushes to her rescue. Louise awakens and sends for Leo.
Director: Henry Otto
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Edward Coxen as Leo Holmes |
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Winifred Greenwood as Louise Wilke |
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John Steppling as P.G. Wilke, Esq. |
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George Field as Bruce Morgan |
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William Bertram as Dr. Lane |
| Directing | Henry Otto | Director |
| Writing | Irving Cummings | Scenario Writer |
